The Degenerate Gallants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJII GG| HERNANI Act I March | A |
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| What business brings you here young cavaliers | B |
| Men like the Cid the knights of bygone years | B |
| Rode out the battle of the weak to wage | C |
| Protecting beauty and revering age | C |
| Their armor sat on them strong men as true | D |
| Much lighter than your velvet rests on you | D |
| Not in a lady's room by stealth they knelt | E |
| In church by day they spoke the love they felt | E |
| They kept their houses' honor bright from rust | F |
| They told no secret and betrayed no trust | F |
| And if a wife they wanted bold and gay | G |
| With lance or axe or falchion and by day | G |
| Bravely they won and wore her As for those | H |
| Who slip through streets when honest men repose | H |
| With eyes turned to the ground and in night's shade | I |
| The rights of trusting husbands to invade | I |
| I say the Cid would force such knaves as these | J |
| To beg the city's pardon on their knees | J |
| And with the flat of his all conquering blade | I |
| Their rank usurped and 'scutcheon would degrade | I |
| Thus would the men of former times I say | G |
| Treat the degenerate minions of to day | G |
Victor Marie Hugo
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